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		<title>This is How makes it into the Irish Times books of 2009 list</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is How makes yet another appearance in a major newspaper&#8217;s &#8216;books of the year&#8217; list. This time it&#8217;s the Irish Times, where poet Vona Groarke writes: &#8220;Patrick Oxtoby is a damaged, brittle, ordinary man: his actions and their consequences are presented in deceptively transparent prose that balances honesty with integrity, and brutality with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Times chooses This Is How amongst its books of the year</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[More good news &#8211; Another major newspaper has picked This is How in its end of year roundup. The Financial Times has chosen This is How as one of its best novels of 2009. Financial Times fiction reviewer Angel Gurría-Quintana writes: &#8220;Hyland’s exquisitely crafted prose makes readers care for this emotionally stunted protagonist.&#8221; You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hilary Mantel lists &#8216;This is How&#8217; as one of her books of the year!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Man Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel, has chosen This is How as one of her books of the year! In a piece published in the Guardian, Mantel, the author of Wolf Hall, wrote: Mysteriously underrated among this year&#8217;s novels was MJ Hyland&#8217;s This Is How; but then, Hyland&#8217;s talent in itself is mysterious. [...]]]></description>
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